We may have been a bit quiet on the blog over the past few days but its only because we've been doing lots of trainings! Our journey back up to Lilongwe on Tuesday was a lot better than we had expected thanks to Ruth's savvy bargaining skills in the bus station. We piled onto a local bus with all of our bags and resources and settled down for a long journey back up. The journey didn't take nearly as long as we expected and we were soon back in Lilongwe, as if we had never been away.
On Wednesday we started training the Malawian GOLD teams at the MAGGA headquarters and finished the training on Thursday. We started the training with only 4 participants but by the end of the two days we had trained about 20 people. It was nice to train some different topics and hopefully we have left the Malawi GOLD team in a position to start planning their own training sessions for guide units around Lilongwe and then further afield in Malawi.
We have spent a lot of time training the team on how to plan, deliver and evaluate their own training sessions on Teamwork, Communication, Advocacy and Leadership. Some of the girls are ready and enthusiastic to start trainings but we also hope we will be able to help them set up the Malawian GOLD project as a sustainable venture which the younger girls we were training in Blantyre will be able to join with when they are older.
Today has been a special day for Team Malawi as it is Louise's birthday! We had a treat at lunch as the girls appeared with a cake that had 'Happy Birthday Louise' written on it. We have started our evening with having our dinner in our dresses we had made in Blantyre. We are now going for a chilled out pamper evening after our busy days of training.
GOLD love,
Alice and Team Malawi x
Hi Girls! Well you've been very busy again and managing to expand your training to include even more subject areas and to more guides. Belated "Happy Birthday" to Louise hope you all enjoyed the cake, wearing your new dresses and pampering evening :) It's great being able to hear all about what you're doing and we realised it was probably difficult to get photos onto the blog too, so we shall wait patiently to get a look at all your pictures when you return. All's well here. Love to you all. G xx
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